Octave has been created with the intention of fusing together the graphical elements of written musical composition with the English alphabet. My passion for illustration and typography made me naturally lean towards lettering, while music is a very important element in my creative process.
While reading the newspaper or a book, a designer might unconsciously stop acknowledging the content due to the very natureof the letters. Often in observing the fonts used in books I've read, I've thought that for those of us who work with these fonts, theyare analogous to the notes on a score in the eyes of a musician. They represent the graphic structure that builds the music by which emotions, ideas and feeling are communicated. In the same way, letters are the graphic structure with which texts are composed, making them tools to communicate emotions, ideas and feelings in their own right.

Converse commissioned me to create the visuals for their L.A. Rubber Tracks Live Concert at the Echo featuring Vic Mensa and Wes period. I created three music beasts and one of them was used as the visual for the poster, the photo booth backdrop and stage background.

BECOMING BULLETPROOF is the story of a group of people with disabilities from across America who together take part in an ambitious indie film production. Bulletproof is a Western, complete with authentic wardrobe, saloon brawls, showdowns at the poker table, and evil villains. It’s the fruit of ideals that two brothers and their wives put into action through an inclusive film project they run in Hollywood every year. For them "Bulletproof" isn’t about actors’ limitations, “It’s all about making an awesome movie, not a statement.”

I worked with Mindbomb Films to create the illustration for the poster for the new documentary by Nicole Boxer. The film, titled "How I Got Over”, tells the story of a group of women that left homelessness behind, and how they got together to present their lives in a play at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

The element of light is the base of the concept behind the poster. These group of women worked their way out of a dark situation. At the same time the play at the Kennedy Center is a main element in the movie. Shevanda, the main character, is looking up to the future, and the texture on her face represents both the theatre’s spotlight and the light she is now facing in her life.

TypeEd in Los Angeles invited me to teach a workshop on the subject of ambigrams. I created the title of the workshop, Head over heels, as an ambigram as well as some other words in order to show the students different approaches and solutions to ambigram design.

Symbiosis is a project focused on type experimentation. Based on the marvelous Didot Elder, I created a display font using branches and embroidery as shaping elements. The harshness of the branches is balanced by the delicacy of the detailed embroidery, they work together in a symbiotic relationship, creating natural and organic shapes that inspire quietness and latency. It's the visualization of the moment just before every system starts to bloom, the promise of a new beginning, that hasn't started yet but can already be felt.

A limited series of letter pressed posters depicting the letter A in his raw form, with no embroidery, are available to purchase.

Dan and Dave commissioned me to do a lettering piece for a T-Shirt to be given away as a gift for their backers on their project "Our Magic", a new documentary revealing the secret world of magic & magicians as told by the finest thinkers, creators and performers of the art.

Richard Solomon Artists Representative is an Illustration boutique based in New York City that represents 40 artists all over the world. The redesign of their branding image reflects sophistication, elegance and style, which are some of the characteristics that define the group.

Selfie Club is a brand new app created for teenagers that allows them to share their selfies with followers along with a corresponding icon that matches their mood at the time. Start getting #SelfieFamous

Signature Creative was commissioned to create a set of cool and engaging emoticons that would appeal to this demographic. We linked each one of the main emotions to iconography within popular culture.
For instance, our happy icon is a clam ("happy as a clam"), our sick icon is a dog and our angry icon is a sour grape. We also created a second set of icons based on actions and some tertiary icons depicting animals, objects or special events. The goal of this level of personalization was to allow every user to select from a wide array of fun and unique visual avatars within the Selfie Club Icon family look and feel.

Vinyl is an experimental typography project inspired by the music and the look and feel of the 1970's. Since back then vinyl records were the media in which music was played and enjoyed, the circle has been used as a core shape from which to construct the entire alphabet. In oder to illustrates how this display typeface behaves when composed, I choose the titles of the three top hits of the 1970's. The intention of this typographic experiment is to create rhythm and dynamism though the text.

Vinyl has three variations: Concentric lines for a more playful look, solid shapes with rounded corners for a more legible option, and sharp corners for a more serious approach.

Commissioned by the fashion line Bambibylaura for the creation of the visual presentation of its 2006 spring-summer collection, Butterflies, for projection in its stand in the Bread and Butter festival.

Design of the SS07 catalog for the Panorama Collection
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Personal project conceived as a present for my sister. The composition is a graphical representation of the feminine world that we share, rich in movement and change. It is composed of two 2x0.7m canvases.